Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2019

Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2019 is a Grenache-led Rhône red with black fruit, lavender and cellar depth from galets roulés. This is the domaine's flagship mood in a concentrated 2019 frame. Expect a dark, perfumed Châteauneuf built for patience, with enough polish to tempt an early decant.

About the Wine
This 2019 Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape is an organically certified red from the southern Rhône. Grenache leads the blend, joined by Mourvèdre, Syrah and the old Châteauneuf variety Vaccarèse. The vineyard soils named for this bottle bring together galets roulés, sand and clay. That mix shows in the glass as dark berry weight, warm stone and a scented garrigue edge. At 15% alcohol, the 2019 carries the Reine des Bois stamp in its scale and its deep black-fruit register. The key cellar detail is the élevage: 18 to 24 months in French oak demi-muids and barriques. The demi-muids give a broad grain to the oak, and the barriques add a tighter line of spice. Mocha, vanilla and dark chocolate sit around ripe cherry and blackcurrant. The dry finish keeps returning to licorice, violet and crushed stone after the fruit has faded. In this 2019, the wood reads as a dark frame around a very concentrated Châteauneuf core.

Tasting Notes
The nose is deep and dark, with cassis, blackberry and a graphite-like mineral note that feels very Reine des Bois in its almost brooding black-fruit depth in this 2019 release. Air brings lavender, violet and anise, then a warmer trail of licorice and crushed stone that echoes the galets roulés after a few minutes in the glass. The palate is full-bodied and compact, with black fruit packed tightly around firm tannin, polished oak spice and the dry power of 15% alcohol from the first serious sip. Ripe cherry meets mocha and vanilla on the finish, with dark chocolate lingering beside a velvety feel that still reads youthful and built for a long cellar stretch after the glass has warmed. Drink 2026-2044.

Food Pairing
With this much cassis, anise and tannin, think of red meat with a proper browned crust and slow-rendered fat. Côte de boeuf with rosemary potatoes gives the 2019 Reine des Bois a rich partner, and the wine’s blackberry and graphite notes stay clear beside the beef especially after an hour in a decanter. For a regional plate, serve daube Provençale with olives, orange peel and slow-cooked beef from the southern Rhône table near Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Game is another strong route: venison loin with juniper, wild boar ragù or roast pigeon with a dark pan sauce over creamy polenta. At the cheese course, choose aged Comté or Tomme de Savoie for nutty saltiness against the wine’s mocha, violet and licorice finish after the main course.

Producer
Domaine de la Mordorée was founded in 1986 by Francis Delorme and his son Christophe, and the family base remains in Tavel on the western side of the Rhône near its Lirac vineyards, where the estate’s range first made its name. That address gives the domaine an unusual profile for a Châteauneuf producer: the same name appears on serious Tavel rosé, Lirac reds and flagship bottlings such as Reine des Bois across the family portfolio. The estate name refers to the woodcock, a russet woodland bird, and that bird identity runs through labels that feel instantly recognisable before the capsule is cut and the Reine des Bois name carries the same woodland thread. After Christophe Delorme’s death in 2015, Madeleine and Ambre Delorme continued the work, keeping the domaine’s organic direction and its taste for dense fruit from stony southern Rhône sites in bottlings that still feel unmistakably forceful. Reine des Bois is the bottle I look for when I want the domaine at full volume, with Grenache leading Mourvèdre, Syrah and Vaccarèse into a dark and perfumed register in this 750 ml bottle. The 2019 shows that house signature clearly, with long French oak élevage adding mocha and spice, then a cassis-rich core that keeps the wine firmly in Châteauneuf-du-Pape from the first deep pour.

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